Abstract
ABSTRACT This present study in-depth investigates how higher education (HE) instructors and leaders in Vietnam are implementing student-centered orientation of teaching (SCOT) to help them escape the Confucian culture-caused blaming spiral: leaders blame instructors for failures, instructors blame students and institutional communities blame everyone. This study had a twofold aim: identifying how Vietnamese university instructors are implementing SCOT and identifying whether leaders support the academics staff’s SCOT adoption. The focus of the first aim was both authenticity – how well the study participants’ practices aligned with their SCOT conceptions – and comprehensiveness – how thoroughly they were incorporating the three central SCOT tenets of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The findings revealed that the study participants neither comprehensively incorporate SCOT principles into practice nor authentically student-oriented by adhering to their conceptions, and that they obtained no comprehensive support from institutional administrators for their SCOT efforts.
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